Carlos Castaneda Quotes

True navigation begins in the human heart. It's the most important map of all.

Don't follow in my footsteps; follow your heart.

I just sort of follow my bliss, so to speak, and then I see where that takes me.

Enjoy the fashions, read the good articles, and when you feel threatened, turn your mental gaze inward, but keep your eyes on the road, or you won't know where you are going. Have a practice or discipline that lets you be in touch with your inner self, your soul.

The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Every path serves a purpose.

Re-examine all that you have been told... dismiss that which insults your soul.

There must be a thread in everything I choose to take on, and I can't say it's a calculated thread, but I think you end up doing the work that's resonating with you.

Tell my brother to remember his heart in all things. That is where his honor and his destiny will be found. Tell him.

You don't always have to know who you are. Sometimes, it's enough just to know what to do next.

A path is only a path, and there is no affront, to oneself or to others, in dropping it if that is what your heart tells you . . . Look at every path closely and deliberately. Try it as many times as you think necessary. Then ask yourself alone, one question . . . Does this path have a heart? If it does, the path is good; if it doesn't it is of no use.

I have to be careful what I ask for in life, cause I always seem to get it! The good thing is, Ive got a purpose now, whereas before my purpose was to go out and party.

The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you going? What are you doing? Think about these once in a while and watch your answers change.

The more you let yourself be distracted from where you are going, the more you are the person that you are. It's not so much like getting lost as it is like getting found.

Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own.

I never decide if an idea is good or bad until I try it. So much of what gets in the way of things being good is thinking that we know. And the more that we can remove any baggage we're carrying with us, and just be in the moment, use our ears, and pay attention to what's happening, and just listen to the inner voice that directs us, the better.

I recommend anybody go to a bookstore, go down the self-help or new-age section, and just walk those aisles. See what book jumps out at you; there's a good chance it's a book you need in your life. That's basically how I find the books that I read.

The best way to find out whether you're on the right path? Stop looking at the path.

That's what life is - you follow where your heart leads you - at least I do.

My mom just wants to make sure that my heart is always in whatever I do and I'm in things for the right reasons.

There is in each of us a stream of tendency, whether you choose to call it philosophy or not, which gives coherence and direction to thought and action. Judges cannot escape that current any more than other mortals.

We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourself.

You really have to listen to yourself and know if what someone is saying is true for you.

Do not follow the ideas of others, but learn to listen to the voice within yourself. Your body and mind will become clear and you will realize the unity of all things.

We can all afford to do a little soul-searching about the choices we make and the way we live our lives, but sometimes searching one's soul doesn't provide the answers we seek.